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Actxp Utilis

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

In the civil law. An equitable, or beneficial action.

1 Kaufm. Mack. Civ. Law, 268, note.

An action which lay by, or against a principal, on the contract of his agent.

Story on Agency, § 163.

The opposite of actio directa, (q. v.) An action ex delicto, which lay where the act of a party was not immediately, but only indirectly, or consequentially injurious to another.

Inst. 4. 3. 16.